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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized.

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The Great Gatsby

1925

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel set in the Jazz Age on Long Island near New York City in 1922. It tells the story of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

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